Posts by Rukario

Facebook bows to pressure, vows to rid itself of sexist hate speech

Venables?

Do you mean Terry Venables the football manager, or Jon Venables from the Jamie Bulger case?

Tim Cook: Wearable tech's nice, but Google Glass will NEVER BE COOL

iPhone owners' wrists?

For that, they'll need the iHand.

Re: Give me Google Glass

Those will be the Torchwood contact lenses then.

Re: @AC "People either wear glasses to see or glasses to reduce glare from the sun"

@ratfox: > Unfortunately, there are far too many who wear sunglasses after dark.

Corey Hart?

OKPay suspends payment processing to all Bitcoin exchanges

Re: Don't worry Bitcoin holders....

From this basic premise, it is very simple to prove that the Galactibanks are also the product of a deranged imagination.

Forget the word 'cyberwar' says Marcus Ranum

Re: But... MUH Cubersecurity

> Do you want freedom fried with that?

Do you mean "freedom fries"? Or are you actually referring to the frying of freedom?

Re: @jake

Cyber war...

Cybus Industries versus Mondas

AT&T adds 61¢ 'Mobility Administrative Fee' for users

Re: Fido Canada

Meanwhile on Fido PAYG...

911 fee... 75c

Caller ID... free

Voicemail... free (other than the minutes)

System access fee... there isn't one.

Re: DST Fee?

They don't need any more ideas!

Fairphone goes on sale to all

Re: Dual Sim

> you cannot have two calls active at the same time in both of the SIM cards.

I can't figure out how this would work... how can you carry on two conversations at once on a single phone?

Re: Dual SIM

Both SIMs are active and you get two signal strength meters. At least on my phone (a Chinese-made LongShengFa 820), an incoming call or text comes up saying what SIM it's coming in on. When sending, I get two send buttons, so I can select which SIM to place the call/send the text on.

Re: Hmmm

Weird, it's now showing 2104 phones sold, 22 days left*, 42% of goal

(* it's still Wednesday here)

World's richest hobo (Apple) has worked 'tax-free' in Ireland since '80s

"The iPhone maker"

The rest of the article is about Apple... how did this mention of Foxconn worm its way in then?

Social network bins Beijing's banned buzzwords

Re: Which Great firewall ?

All your code-base are belong to us.

<- They set up us the bomb.

Eric Schmidt: 'Google IS a capitalist country... er, company'

Re: "There's this concern that we are somehow going to misuse this data"

> Mr. You-Have-No-Privacy-Get-Over-It Schmit.

Wasn't that Scott McNealy?

You mean impropriety. </pedant>

And yes, it does make her a murderous jailbird by association, once she gets out of her human skin suit and we see her for the Slitheen she really is.

Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the console that can read your heartbeat

Re: Thats all we need

Rickroll? Not a chance.

They've given us up and let us down. They've run around and deserted us. They've made us cry, they've said goodbye. They've told lies and hurt us.

Re: What a terrible name

This is reminiscent of the Sony Ericsson P-series, going from 800 to 900, 910, 990. Then, the P1.

Even Xbox Infinity would have been a better name (still leaving Continuum for one final stab at the console hardware business).

MICROSOFT STUPID NAME FAIL. (They deserve this Eadonism, they really do.)

BYOD beyond the noise

Re: Subtitle sums it up really

> The order given from on-high to IT departments regarding BYOD.

Closely followed by BMAiD

That $1,000 the lad in Lagos needed? Just email it with Google Wallet

Re: Holiday Money?

Sounds like this one:

http://www.scamorama.com/gwb.html

Re: 2.9 per cent?

"2.9 per cent?

"my god. that's highway robbery!

"or did you mean 2.9 percent?

"<---- searching for any spare change in by jacket." (don't you mean my jacket here?)

This works if the first line is read as "2.9 per cent", or "2.9 per $0.01".

Marks & Sparks accused of silently bonking punters over the tills

Re: A bit too convenient

> For residents in many of the states adjoining Canada, there is an "enhanced" license with an RFID chip to "speed up passage through customs". I have to wonder if there are other readers dotted here and there so The Man can track where people go.

The Man also supplies the little tinfoil sleeves to keep the enhanced card in.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Hipster era is OVER – sorry, beanie boiz...

Re: Hipster posters?

@g e

> Or is hipster just a euphemism for appleist

Correct. (At least on these forums.)

Re: El Reg posters?

You and I obviously aren't reading the same Reg forums. Any positive mention of the hipster cult results in mass downvotings; any negative mention gets upvoted.

Murdoch Facebook gloat: You're like my $580m, 'CRAPPY' MySpace

Re: Typo

For some reason, the editors keep making that slip-up. Perhaps they need to keep on someone's "good" side?

All aboard the patch wagon! Next stop: Microsoft, Adobe, Mozilla

And Ubuntu 12.04

Kernel just rev'ed to 3.2.0-43.

Ten years on: How did that cloud strategy pan out?

The OSI model

IMO, "Cloud" is a reference to the old ISO OSI-model textbooks that used a "cloud" image to try to hide the actual [net]working layers below the so-called "eighth layer".

Oi, Google! Stop LIBELLING us Germans, fix your autocomplete

Re: "Germans are ..."

> "if"? Was that also "deliberate and required"?

He was ufing mediaeval orthography.

Firefox 21 ships with performance-profiling Health Report

Re: WTF

@AC 05:44 I've never actually used Canonical's Ubuntu, always been a Kubuntu user just because of my dislike of Gnome (that goes back to the Slackware 3 days). Needless to say in a year's time, if the next LTS of Kubuntu goes the Unity way, I'll be going elsewhere.

But worse yet, they've changed the icon location! They're now in /usr/lb/firefox/browser/chrome/icons/default for those of us who just have to have Tails in the top left of our browser windows!

Re: WTF

Agreed, just downloaded it from the Canonical repos, and was completely unaware of this "feature" until coming here. Duly switched off.

Google abruptly shuts down search-by-SMS portal

Re: No Google phone without data plan

> WTF is google so goddamned reticent about giving users a private, maximum security vault so as to deny apps from going through our phone lists?

Does this question not answer itself? It contains both the words google and private, and is therefore a contradiction.

United Nations: 'Overpopulated Earth? Time to EAT BUGS'

Re: Chickens

> You SHOULD be eating a diet consisting mostly of grains and vegetables with very modest additions of meat at somewhat irregular intervals. HOWEVER, Westerners insist on eating a diet consisting mostly of meat with additions of (and sometime irregular intervals) of grains and vegetables.

This is wrong in so many ways. The only reason why you "should" be eating a diet consisting mostly of grains is to enrich the various grain-producing lobbies. This is also the same reason why livestock is fed on a diet of grains rather than grass. Yet we're told contradictory reasons, the same grains are supposed to slim down humans while fattening livestock. As a result, the Western diet consists, not "mostly of meat", but rather, mostly (well over half) of grains and other pure starches, and the other half is, yes, mostly meat, with a smattering of vegetables. (Compare bread:meat ratio in a Big Mac, then add the fries, yep more starch.) And we wonder why we have such a problem with the 'beetus.

<- The only acceptable way to consume grains. (Whisky is also implied.)

Re: Chickens

@Denarius > The most ecological damage comes from poverty. Often maintained in that state by socialist governments in poor countries.

Hardly socialist governments. Kleptocratic would be a better description.

Re: Weevily biscuits, anyone?

Straight out of the sewers of Cardiff.

Boffins plan to drop €250,000 TEST-TUBE BURGER on London

Re: This is fucking good actually

> Meet the meat!

Almost as good as a rare steak from an Ameglian major cow.

France weighing 'culture tax' on phones, slabs, PCs, TVs

Re: fail

France has land borders with 11 countries, of which 6 are EU members (including the France-Netherlands border on St Martin which isn't always counted).

Apple asked me for my BANK statements, says outraged reader

Re: Private companies DO do this

@velv > Pubs do it for a pint (<£5), and that's a legal thing (<18).

Pubs don't (normally) take copies/scans of the proof of identity though.

Notebook sales to surge, says notebook seller

Re: Missing the point

(Q if a macbook was toiletpaper what brand would it be comments...)

A Not sure of the brand but it would clog anything other than an iToilet.

Re: Tell you what, Ray

> 8 - not "figure of 8" cable but IEC (the "kettle lead") as you can find them world wide and thus plug in anywhere you go.

Those are all different IEC 320 (actually IEC 60320) cables. "Figure of 8" is C7, "IEC" is C13, "Kettle lead" is C15, and even "Cloverleaf" is C5.

Pedant alert: A kettle lead and "IEC" are not the same. There is a slight indent on the C15 cable and C16 socket, so although a kettle lead (C15) can fit in a C14 socket (computer PSU), a computer lead (C13) cannot fit in a C16 socket (kettle).

'Liberator': Proof that you can't make a working gun in a 3D printer

Re: Won't someone think of

The right to keep bear arms?

Won't someone think of the bears?

> And BTW, what kind of political leader would even THINK of carpet-bombing, to say nothing of nuking, their own population? My answer is one that would soon be swamped in his own capital, making the bombing option useless unless that leader's not too concerned about his/her future.

And my answer is that he'll then complain about being so ronery and sadry arone.

Re: RE: longest unprotected borders in the world

Yeah and the border guards (on both sides) have enough trouble stopping illegal guns entering Canada.

Identity cards: How Labour lost power in a case of mistaken ID

Re: I wonder how much of the opposition matches mine?

> And not only that the central storage of personnel information which is irrelevant to primary purpose of the system.

Erm, the central storage of "personnel" (I assume you mean "personal", it's not just a huge HR department) is very relevant to the primary purpose of the system, which is the monetisation and sale of said information.

Enjoy the weekend, sysadmins: Next Tues fixes 33 Microsoft bugs

Re: This update affects all versions...

> The only "rewrite" of Windows in it's entire history was the introduction of Windows NT, no matter what massively misinformed people on the internet might suggest. Every other version has been built upon a previous in some form or another.

And Windows NT itself was built upon OS/2. The NT 4.0 system help files still made reference to itself as OS/2.

US Department of Defense fingers China as top cyber threat

In other news

China fingers US Department of Defense as top cyber threat.

Linux kernel 3.9 lands

Re: @1Rafayal

Actually the USSR did have the "none of the above" (против всех) option in ballots. How effective it was in "elections" that were otherwise seen as rigged is another matter.

One of the world's oldest experiments crawls towards a fall

Re: As boring as watching...

Those are all exciting and fast compared to watching pitch drip.

Feds want to fine companies that refuse wiretap requests

> "...There are a number of serious unintended consequences with this flawed proposal."

Fixed:

"...There are a number of serious intended consequences with this flawed proposal."

Another negative climate feedback: Warmer plants cool the planet

> However, it is indisputable that human population growth is causing the disappearance of very large tracts of forests and jungles. Look to the Amazon over the past 50 years for evidence.

That may change with Amazon's switch from dead-tree books to ebooks. Makes me wonder how the Vashta Nerada will manage.